SCI Applications

HEP Projects

The following HEP projects are investigating the usability of SCI for their applications.

RD24, "An Application of the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) to Data aquisition Systems for LHC". Members of this CERN based research project on SCI is active contributors to the SCI standard and members of IEEE-1596.* standards comittees.

For information about other HEP experiment/projects considering or planning to use SCI, e.g., ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, STAR etc, click here.

Other Projects

SCI, being specially suited for high performance MPP applications, is being planned in many more or less known MPP projects.

The European Space Agency, ESA, is planning to use SCI in their next DAQ system.
Lexmark and Los Alamos National Lab have joined in an ARPA-funded consortium to develop high performance low-cost parallel fiber-optic links specifically for SCI.

For information about companies actively working with SCI, e.g. Dolphin, IBM, APPLE, ...